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'''Amiya Kumar Bagchi''' (born 1936) is aN Indian political economist.<ref name="urlThe Hindu : Book Review : An `alternative history">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2006/10/03/stories/2006100301151400.htm |title=The Hindu : Book Review : An 'alternative history' |access-date=9 February 2010 |location=Chennai, India |date=3 October 2006}}</ref> His contributions have spanned [[economic history]], the economics of industrialisation and deindustrialisation, and [[development studies]] from an overall [[Marxist]] perspective, incorporating insights from other schools of radical political economics, including left [[Keynesianism]].

==Biography==

His academic career began when he started teaching in Presidency College, [[Kolkata]]. In the 1960s, he taught in the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge (where he was Fellow of [[Jesus College, Cambridge|Jesus College]]), but resigned his post in 1969, to resume his academic career in Presidency College, Kolkata.<ref name="idsk.org">{{cite web |url=http://idsk.org/amiya.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-03-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726171113/http://idsk.org/amiya.html |archive-date=26 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

In 1974 he joined the newly founded [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], which went on to become one of the most productive and globally famous research institutions in [[India]].<ref>http://www.caleidoscop.org/Members/Marius/news-caleidoscop-2009/post-doctoral-fellowship-2009-rabindranath-tagore-centre-for-human-development-studies{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Bagchi has specialised in the history of Indian banking and finance, and acted as Official Historian of the [[State Bank of India]] (SBI) from 1976 to 1998; he played a leading role in ensuring that the unique archives of SBI are preserved for posterity.<ref name="idsk.org"/>

After retiring as [[Reserve Bank of India]] professor from the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] in 2001, he became the founder-director of the [[Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata]],<ref name="idsk.org"/> a multidisciplinary centre of excellence in the [[social sciences]], which is affiliated with the [[University of Calcutta]], and is promoted by the government of West Bengal.<ref name="idsk.org"/>

==Awards and honours==
The professional awards and honours Bagchi has received include:

* [[Padma Shri]] of the government of India 2005.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
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Bagchi has authored over 250 academic articles and has authored and edited numerous books and monographs.

The books he has authored include:
*2010 ''Colonialism and Indian Economy'', Oxford University Press
*2005 ''[[Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital]]'', Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
*2004 ''The Developmental State in History and in the Twentieth Century'', New Delhi: Regency
*2002 ''Capital and Labour Redefined: India and the Third World'', Anthem Press
*1997 ''The Evolution of the State Bank of India: The Era of the Presidency Banks 1876–1920'', Sage Publications
*1989 ''The Presidency Banks and the Indian Economy 1876–1914'', Bombay:. Oxford University Press
*1987 ''Public Intervention and Industrial Restructuring in China, India and Republic of Korea'', New Delhi: ILO-ARTEP
*1987, reissued 2006 ''The Evolution of the State Bank of India. The Roots, 1806–1876'', Oxford University Press; reissued by Penguin Portfolio
*1982 ''The Political Economy of Underdevelopment'', Cambridge University Press
*1972 ''Private Investment in India 1900–1939'', Cambridge University Press

===Edited and co-edited volumes===
*2007 ''Capture and Exclude: Developing Economies and the Poor in Global Finance'' (with Gary A. Dymski) New Delhi: Tulika
*2005 ''Webs of History: Information, Communication and Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India'' (with D. Sinha and B. Bagchi), New Delhi: Manohar
*2005 ''Maladies, Preventives, and Curatives: Debates in Public Health in India'' (with K. Soman), New Delhi: Tulika
*2003 ''Economy and the Quality of Life: Essays in Memory of Ashok Rudra'' (with M. Chattopadhyay and R. Khasnabis), Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co.
*2002 ''Money and Credit in Indian History since Early Medieval Times'', New Delhi: Tulika
*1999 ''Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy'' (with R. Bhargava and R. Sudarshan), Oxford University Press
*1999 ''Economy and Organization: Indian Institutions under the Neoliberal Regime'', Sage Publications
*1995 ''Democracy and Development: Proceedings of the IEA Conference Held in Barcelona, Spain'', Palgrave Macmillan
*1995 ''New Technology and the Workers’ Response: Microelectronics, Labour and Society'', Sage Publications
*1988 ''Economy, Society and Polity: Essays in the Political Economy of Indian Planning in Honour of Professor [[Bhabatosh Datta]]'', Oxford University Press

===Papers===
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [http://www.networkideas.org/feathm/mar2006/Amiya_Bagchi.pdf China and India: From where? Where to? A preliminary investigation], Paper presented at International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) conference on 'Post Liberalisation Constraints on Macroeconomic Policies', Muttukadu, Chennai, India, 27–29 January 2006
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [http://www.monthlyreview.org/0703bagchi.htm The Parameters of Resistance], ''Monthly Review'', Vol 55 No 3 (July–Aug 2003)
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070315000017/http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2002&leaf=06&filename=4555&filetype=html The Other Side of Foreign Investment by Imperial Powers], ''Economic & Political Weekly'' (8 June 2002)
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [http://www.cdedse.org/papers/9march2002/occpap2.pdf The problem of colonialism in classical political economy : analysis, [[epistemological]] breaks and mystification]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Centre for Development Economics/Delhi School of Economics Occasional Paper 1, March 2002
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20050326230840/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1902/19021220.htm The ails of the system]}}, ''Frontline'' Volume 19 – Issue 02, 19 Jan – 1 February 2002
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071014174548/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1612/16120640.htm Amartya Sen's Human Science of Development]}}, ''Frontline'' Volume 16 – Issue 12, 5–18 June 1999
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20061102005049/http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol6/number2/pdf/jwsr-v6n2-bagchi.pdf The Past and the Future of the Developmental State], ''Journal of World-Systems Research'', vi, 2, summer/fall 2000, 398–442 Special Issue: Festchrift for Immanuel Wallerstein – Part I

===Chapters in books===
* {{Citation | last1 = Bagchi | first1 = Amiya Kumar | contribution = The capability approach and the political economy of human development | editor1-last = Kanbur | editor1-first = Ravi | editor2-last = Basu | editor2-first = Kaushik | editor-link1= Ravi Kanbur | editor-link2 = Kaushik Basu | title = Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume II: Society, institutions and development | pages = 31–47 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780199239979 | postscript = .}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[[C.T. Kurien|Kurien, CT]], [http://www.hindu.com/br/2006/10/03/stories/2006100301151400.htm Review of PERILOUS PASSAGE — Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital], ''The Hindu'' (3 October 2006)
*Radical Notes, [https://web.archive.org/web/20081106102015/http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/75/39/ Capital and capitalists nannied by the states: An Interview with Amiya Kumar Bagchi], ''Radical Notes'' (18 October 2008)
*Murali, D, [http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/07/17/stories/2010071751750700.htm], 'Property Right Subjugation by British Land Tax,' review of an essay in Bagchi's 2010 book ''Colonialism and'' ''Indian Economy'', ''The Hindu Businessline'' (17 July 2010).
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